iPad paintings

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

next stage, work in progress, birches and pool

Birches and Pool - changes - work in progress

OK - this is where it is now. I decided to crop it a little and move the elements on the left in, lose some off the top where it was throwing the balance a bit and have a border around, which will show between the painting and the off white mat between it and a pale wood frame.

The colour balance is a little better in this one, closer to the painting

10 comments:

This is coming along nicely, Vivien. I'm not sure I'm fully understanding what you're doing but it's looking good. I loved the golden tones and the use of complimentary colors in the prior post but the passage of deep blue was throwing the comp off a bit. It looked top heavy. This now looks much more balanced.

I'm really enjoying seeing this series and can't wait for the next. I love the marks, colours and shapes. There is one tinsy thing that I would do though. The progression in the scale of the trees is lovely but the middle horizontal bands of the land seem very close in height so it seems to flatten the depth. This contrast might be what you intended though. Just my two pennies worth...

About Me

I'm interested in painting the light and colours of landscapes as they change through seasons, the time of day or weather.
Seascapes feature strongly in my work as I love the coast, a love which developed when I lived near the sea as a child in Cornwall, Scotland, Malta and Gibraltar - each place with its special light and colour.
I realise too that I love the edges of things - for instance the coast, where the sea meets the land, the edges of woods where the trees meet the open fields.
I paint in most media and experiment with digital imagery - as a creative process related to my painting but also creating work that exists in its own right.
Another interest is photography, mainly as something in its own right, as I only rarely paint from photographs. The same elements interest me here as in my painting.
Apart from painting and photography, I teach art to adults and have all the normal preoccupations, trials and tribulations of women with families ... and cats.